In the early autumn of 1006, according to the Ganzhi year in the East, this year is the year of Bingwu, the third year of Jingde of Zhao and Song, and the twenty-fourth year of Khitan unification.

Luo Kaixian led more than 80,000 descendants of the artisan battalion of the former Tang Anxi Army, more than 10,000 Han people who were displaced in other places, more than 20,000 people to be married and homeless people from various miscellaneous tribes of the grassland, plus more than 20,000 Han people in Hexi to arrive in Lingzhou, Hexi......

The common denominator is that whether it is yellow-skinned, white-skinned or brown-skinned, they can speak Chinese, of course, some are not very fluent, well, the word fluent is a little inappropriate, and the two idioms of absurd and northern accent are more appropriate.

He was accompanied by Li Deming, the leader of the Dangxiang tribe, Wei Muyihei, the leader of the Dangxiang Weimu tribe who was guarding Huizhou, and his entourage of more than 200 personal soldiers, followed by a group of caravans led by Nowak, a mixed-race merchant from Central Asia, totaling more than 2,300 people.

Hao Hao Tangtang's team alarmed everyone on both sides of the Yellow River in the entire Lingzhou region, if it weren't for Wei Mu Yihei who was in charge of introducing and guiding them, I am afraid that on the day of the arrival of this 140,000-strong man and horse, there would be a battle.

Of course, for Luo Kaixian and his subordinates, it would be a one-sided killing, but for the few small tribes who lived here, it could only be a brutal and hopeless defense war to defend their homeland.

On the second day of the eastbound camp, Luo Kaixian sent someone to find Wei Mu Yihei, who lived in Lingzhou City.

"Old General Wei Mu, this is what you said about only three thousand Utabu garrisons? What are they going to do? The old general wants to break the contract? Luo Kaixian's tone was very blunt, he had plenty of reasons to be angry about the other party's obstruction the day before yesterday, of course...... It's pretended.

Because the whole area north of Lingzhou is as rich in water and grass as he expected, although there is no arable land, it is enough for him to lead people to open up a perfect home here. The only thing that was a little unexpected was that there were not only the Uta people mentioned by Wei Mu Yihei, but also large and small tribes named Chiwu, Hun Tulu, Karaba, Terra, etc., these are said to be tribes, but in fact, they are small teams composed of dozens or hundreds of people who don't know where they came from, not to mention that Luo Kaixian himself has never heard of them, even in the concept of the party members, they have never existed.

It is difficult for these small tribes who have never heard of their names to distinguish their clans, and as in the Seven Rivers Valley, there are both yellow-skinned and white-skinned, so Luo Kaixian feels as if he is not in the land of the East, but somewhere inexplicable.

Well, this is actually understandable, in the long history of more than a thousand years, there are too many things that have been buried, not to mention a few inconspicuous small tribes, even if the hundreds of thousands of party clans in front of Luo Kaixian are not quietly lost after a hundred years?

What annoyed Lao Luo was not the so-called resistance of these small tribes, but Wei Mu Yihei, who stood in the middle and the mud. During the interview in Huizhou a few days ago, this old soldier said that there were only 3,000 people from the Uta tribe here, and now the number is excessive and he refuses to leave. Or then test your bottom line with the timing of the mud?

The thousand stone refined salt that was discussed before can already be called rich, Wei Mu Yihei is a bit too much to tear it up like this, he Luo Kaixian has plenty of materials at hand, but it doesn't mean that if he wants to win over the party members, he has to be a big wrongdoer, and the soldiers who have been trained hard are not those wood carving clay sculptures on the shrine.

"General Luo is angry, it's not that the old man wants to break the contract, but that the leader of the Uta tribe confided in me yesterday that they don't want to leave this grassland where they have lived in peace for twenty years, and they hope to defect to the general and accept the general's jurisdiction!" Wei Muyi said with a bitter face.

"Oh?" Lao Luo frowned, he didn't believe Wei Mu Yihei's expression, let alone his words, "I remember that Old General Wei Mu said a few days ago that this Uta Department is a vassal of your department, and now it's just a small tribe of three or five thousand people who wants to change their ways, and General Wei Mu can't restrain it?" ”

"This ......" Wei Muyi said with some embarrassment on his face: "Although it has been subordinate for many years, it ...... After all, this is the home where they have lived for many years, and the Wei Mu Department, as the upper part, can't force the lower part to do something, which will chill the rest of the subordinates. Moreover, the leader of our party has promised to cooperate with you......"

This cunning old fellow! After hearing this rhetoric, Luo Kaixian dared to be sure of two things, first of all, the old guy in front of him was a good actor! The second party wants to mix sand under their own hands!

Luo Kaixian never believed that the party members were so merciful to their subordinate tribes, and could allow their subordinates to choose to defect to the forces that were inseparable from friend and foe, which was not possible in the future when all kinds of rules were perfect, let alone in this era when power decided everything?

Then after he left the Uta people to himself, he must have left his eyes and ears in this Lingzhou, and once things change in the future, he, the general stationed in the important places of Huizhou, will be able to get the first information first.

This kind of calculation is not a conspiracy, but a conspiracy that could not be clearer!

Because no matter what aspect of these manpower is concerned, he Luo someone must accept it, and he can't kill a mouthful of murder, otherwise Luo someone will return from afar, even if he is a newcomer, and before he can gain a firm foothold, there will be a reputation of cruelty and brutality, and at that time, more than 100,000 people in this area are waiting to be rejected by everyone within a radius of hundreds of miles.

"Good!" Luo Kai first cheered, and then said: "It's rare for the old general to be happy, it seems that he knows that Luo is short of manpower, and he gave Luo thousands of grassland masters for nothing, thank you so much!" In the future, you and I will have more contacts and mutual assistance! ”

Wei Mu Yihei was suddenly confused, didn't he think wrong? There are at least 140,000 people under the command of this elder surnamed Luo, where can there be so much food to feed the appetites of many people? By those merchants who are no more than 2,000 people? Without this possibility, the appetite of more than 100,000 people is not a small number, and even if his four-wheeled carts are full of food, they will not be enough to survive the coming winter.

Wei Mu Yihei, who couldn't think through it, was completely confused......

Luo Kaixian ignored whether Wei Mu Yihei, a cunning old guy, could figure it out, and directly confessed, turned around and left. As for what Wei Mu Yihei still wants to do here, since someone is watching at any time, the old guy only brought more than 200 personal soldiers, even if the Uta Department temporarily rebelled, what could it do?

However, since he has a suitable excuse, he just swallowed more than 10,000 people in the local area, including the Uta Department, as for the grain and grass, although there are not many left on the surface, but who can know that he has a cheat that is beyond everyone's imagination?

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Lingzhou, located on the east bank of the Yellow River, is recorded in the history books, and the range of 200 miles to the north from here is the founding place of Western Xia.

But in the era when Luo Kaixian led his team to arrive, there was only a dilapidated earthen enclosure here, and at most it could accommodate 2,000 people, a dilapidated small city that did not even have a city gate.

After separating from Wei Mu Yihei, Luo Kaixian rode a horse along the bank of the Yellow River and kept looking. Within a few hundred meters of him were a team of guards with Olki following and restraining him, even though he knew that his own generals were invincible, these warriors still did not dare to slack off.

When he arrived the day before yesterday, it was already past noon, because of the entanglement of those small local tribes, and later he was busy arranging the construction of a camp, Luo Kaixian did not have time to carefully examine the land.

Now walking around, Luo Kaixian first found that there are too many differences, although the theodolite shows that this is the location in the memory, the color of the surrounding land, the type of grass and trees, and the turbidity of the river all prove that this is Hexi Wangdi, but everything reminds Luo Kaixian all the time that this has nothing to do with the historical city in the west in later generations.

Whether it is the course of the river, the thatch that covers the river beach, or the verdant earth and mountains in the distance, it only shows one of the most critical problems - population scarcity.

Although there are already hundreds of thousands of people under his command, what use can these people play?

Don't think about it, just in the hundreds of miles near Lingzhou in front of you, more than 100,000 people are scattered, just like sprinkling sesame seeds into the sand, and they will disappear for a moment.

Lao Luo smiled bitterly, he was still a little anxious, in this era when the road is basically relied on, how can it be so easy to do something to change the world?

It's useless to be anxious and the like, how much appetite to eat and how much to eat, and greed for more will only cause indigestion.

At the moment, the most important thing is to lay a solid foundation, at least 100,000 people who follow the word and follow the order, right?

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Back to the camp six or seven miles away from the Tuweizi in Lingzhou, the people around are busy, this kind of long-term camp arrangement is not a short day or two can be completed, not to mention that this time is different from the temporary camp on the road, but a long-term camp to live in at least one or two months.

As for why it was a month or two, it was because of the need to build a transitional camp for the winter—similar to the wood-carved buildings in Kuzak's time, and in the longer term, to build a city? Don't think about it until winter comes, surveying the location, digging the foundation, directing the water flow, burning bricks and chiseling stones, none of which can be completed in a day or two.

What's more, there are only 100,000 people under his command, so can't all of them serve as construction laborers, right?

The surrounding situation is not so peaceful.

Needless to say, the local Uta tribe and seven or eight small tribes, Xingzhou in the north and Huizhou in the south, as well as other tribes in the farther party, such as the Yeli tribe and the Wuzang tribe, would they really agree with Li Deming's move to take refuge?

Lao Luo doesn't believe that everyone has become the leader for the development of their own clan, and there must be greedy for money and profit, fierce and cruel guys, those people are not good men and women, and their seemingly powerful team can really deter those people?

Impossible.

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When Lao Luo rode his horse back and forth to inspect all corners, a war horse carrying a scout battalion of soldiers galloped over, and when he got closer, the warrior turned over and dismounted, and said loudly: "Report! The general, more than 100 cavalrymen of the Uta tribe attacked the Turkic slaves who were herding horses, killing more than 10 of them, and they robbed more than 100 of our horses......"

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